Marvelling at the intense colour when making jam with blackcurrants from my garden. In the peatlands similar big metal pots would simmer over peat fires with moor gathered lichens, crottal and plants to produce intense colours to dye the wool for weaving into tweed. 

Even on the arid desert of the commercial peat bog, amid the bleached remains of ancient birch trees, the cottongrass sedges are re-colonising.

Rain at last. The sphagnum mosses are doing whatever mosses do when they dance and sing with joy. 

Bleached bones of a 1500 year old birch tree on the arid desert of a commercial peat bog.

Lovely drying weather out on the #peatlands #SouthUist

Phew, heatwave continues. Peat stacks/camel stacks (drawing by Joe). 

Bogged down van, Tomintoul. 

been framing up some of my peat stack illustrations. 

Happy #BogDay 2 IntoThePeatlands 

Happy #BogDay #IntoThePeatlands